Black Park Country Park
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
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| Area of Search | Buckinghamshire |
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| Grid reference | TQ013842 |
| Interest | Biological |
| Area | 15.3 hectares |
| Notification | 1990 |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Black Park is a country park in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England to the north of the A412 road between Slough and Iver Heath. It is managed by Buckinghamshire County Council. It has an area of 250 hectares (618 acres), of which a small area of 15.3 hectares has been designated a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). and a larger area of 66 hectares is a Local Nature Reserve.
Black Park SSSI has heath, alder carr - both rare in the county - mixed and coniferous woodland and some areas of acid grassland. It has a varied fauna, and insects include the nationally rare Roesel's bush cricket. There are eighteen species of butterfly, birds including hobbies and nightjars, and snakes and lizards.
Black Park is adjacent to Pinewood Film Studios and has been used as an outdoor location for many film and television productions. The woods and lake featured prominently in the Hammer Horror films from the late 1950s to the 1970s, including The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966). In these films the location was often used to represent Transylvania. The park has also been used in film productions such as the James Bond film Goldfinger, where it was used for a night car chase scene (actually set in Switzerland and featuring Bond's Aston Martin DB5), and the 2006 version of Casino Royale, plus several Carry On films, Wombling Free, Batman, Sleepy Hollow, Bugsy Malone, the Harry Potter film series, Captain America: The First Avenger, Robin Hood, 47 Ronin,Eden Lake, and the Monty Python film And Now for Something Completely Different.
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